Elena Glinka was born in 1926 in Novorossiisk, a major port-city on the Black Sea. In the early 1950s she moved to Leningrad to study engineering at the Ship Building College, and was falsely arrested on charges of treason. After a year of solitary confinement, she was sent to Kolyma, the notorious gulag camp in Siberia. She was released in 1956 and returned to Leningrad to resume her studies. Her reminiscences were first published in 1989 by the literary journal Neva.

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“They knew perfectly well that they would have to account for any women who were missing and yet they calmly sold women for a glass of vodka.” Elena Glinka relates her harrowing tale of survival in the notorious Kolyma gulag of 1950s Russia.